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Book Review: ‘Whistler’ by Ann Patchett

There’s a certain kind of Ann Patchett novel that doesn’t rely on plot twists or urgency to keep you turning

What I loved most about The Oyster Diaries by Nancy Lemann is that it reads like being trapped at a dinner

There’s a kind of magical realism I tend to love most—the kind where the magic never fully detaches from reality

Rachel Khong’s My Dear You is the kind of short story collection that feels deceptively light when you start and

There’s something unsettling about how we consume stories about serial killers. We know their names, we study their childhoods, and

Set between the early days of the pandemic and the late 1990s in Tokyo, Mieko Kawakami’s Sisters in Yellow follows Hana

There’s something almost feverish about the kind of friendship Sarvat Hasin writes in Strange Girls. Not warm. Not easy. Not

This one hit me square in the millennial chest. I read Grant Ginder’s So Old, So Young in about a

Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth was my introduction to sapphic novels, and it completely changed what I look for in

I picked up Every Version of You by Natalie Messier expecting a cute speculative romance and instead got something much

Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s Almost Life is one of those books that quietly sneaks up on you. I expected a sweeping

Go Gentle by Maria Semple has shot straight to the top of my list. As a reformed feminist who is